In Jake’s defense, he had a lot of other stuff to deal with than upgrading a weapon he didn’t really plan on using anyway. It wasn’t like he had all nine weapons before a few hours ago. Besides, the divine-rarity necklace kind of took away all other attention.
Now, while he was sitting around and waiting anyway, it was a great time to merge them. With the Sword Saint and Carmen observing, he took out the Count weapons one by one. He had a total of seven as he had merged three into one already.
First, he tried to merge the other six into the upgraded one but got no response.
It can’t be.
He then merged three of the weapons, creating an epic-rarity version. He repeated this and now had three epic-rarity weapons.
For real?
Putting the three epic-rarity weapons, they all reacted as they began melting into black metal.
“A bit cliché, isn’t it?” Carmen commented after the three weapons had all turned completely into liquid metal and slowly blended with each other to form something new, as its aura also grew.
“Totally,” Jake agreed. Nine turns to three, and three turns to one weapon. It was like another damn video game. Well, perhaps that was only to be expected, coming from vampire Counts with terrible boss dialogue.
The merging process was smooth, and soon the process stopped as the metal took a more stable state. The weapon now gave off a powerful aura, and Jake had to admit it was likely the most powerful weapon he had ever seen. However, it didn’t resemble a blade anymore but looked more like a black metal stick. Not a staff either, but a twenty-centimeter-long stick. It wasn’t even thick.
Jake used Identify on it together with the two others.
[Vampiric Chimera Weapon (Ancient)] – A weapon created by recombining the full Chimera weapons once wielded by Counts of Blood, all of which have been soaked in the blood of countless enemies throughout the ages. Now that it is whole once more, it still hungers and seeks to grow. Crafted using a special type of steel, the weapon can absorb the lifeforce of vitality-based lifeforms to repair itself. Allows this weapon to steal a portion of the lifeforce of anyone injured by attacks using it. Can change form between various weapons. Enchantments: Hemoabsorbant Self-Repair. Vampiric Weapon. Chimeric Transformation.
Requirements: lvl 150+ in any humanoid race.
Oh, so it’s like the Omnitool, but a weapon? Jake thought as he read it over. It looked all nice and dandy until he got to the last part about the requirements. He needed to be level 150 to use it.
“Looks cool, I guess,” Carmen commented again.
“Indeed a peculiar tool,” the Sword Saint agreed.
“Yep,” Jake said and put it back into the Hunter Insignia. It looked like he would be stuck with only the scimitar against the Sword Saint their duel anyway.
“Can’t use it?” Carmen asked as she saw him put it away.
“Not 150 yet,” he answered truthfully.
“Oh.”
and down again. “I kind of assumed you would be around there. Wait, am
He quickly identified her.
[Human – lvl 136]
he hid his smile under his mask while answering. “Nah, you still
“How many?”
“Oh, plenty.”
tried to tell her to not blow his cover, but it was too late as
fucking one level above me, aren’t you?” she said, glaring
and meek as she flapped her wings to make all her
I appear to be lowest among us at 135. Seems like I cannot
joined them, with even Maria joining in later on. She was especially interested
said as he turned to Maria. “Why did you choose to join the Holy Church despite being
was to offer, not just when it came to party members, but also in providing materials for my profession and facilities to work,” she answered, adding. “There is very much an “ask, and you shall receive” kind of culture
demand in return?”
in a way better position than pretty much anyone else as I am associated with another powerful god and thus far harder to control. I haven’t experienced any serious issues besides the
what way?” Jake asked
why you have to do what they tell you to. Again, I am more or less excluded from
chimed in. “Way easier to just be your
while we can hunt alone, being with a party is just so much more effective. It’s like how a guardian or
“By the way, you keep mentioning being
with
trying to
glaring at him. “He invited you to his divine realm after your tutorial, and you
tossed in
a bottle of vodka, and apparently it was also an excuse to toss me into a vat of poison that helped get me some skill upgrades, even if it usually kills
Jake’s shoulder as he laughed. “Sounds like quite the
fuck up, Jake just agreed.
me to not antagonize you and instead treat you as an ally considering your position as Chosen of a Primordial. So
about
can peek into the Treasure Hunt, so may as well be frank. On that note, you have met the Viper in person… isn’t it kind of unsettling? From what I heard, he is
a better question is why some god is trying to invite someone who already has a Patron god to his
bit taken aback at Jake’s shifting attitude but quickly recovered. “Sorry? And I think he invited you specifically because of that. He was curious who
Jake asked, still more than a
notice of you till he found out he couldn’t take notice of you. He discovered that you had been hidden by the Viper, and that truly piqued his interest,” Maria kept explaining. “There was nothing negative
why any of this is relevant?”
trying to say is that I don’t really care about the Holy Church, and I don’t want my current status as working with them to mean I am against anyone else. I am not some spy or anything either. My true allegiances lie somewhere
Saint asked curtly. “Many other organizations exist, and from what I know, Reika is looking for worthwhile team members, are
been sitting silently, quickly nodded. “I am indeed, Patriarch. Of course, we always need more powerful
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